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> garbage collect unnecessary processes, I may be wrong and he may be actually referring to optimizing garbage collection on their servers, but this sounds lik
by frob 4y ago
> garbage collect unnecessary processes,
I may be wrong and he may be actually referring to optimizing garbage collection on their servers, but this sounds like a callous and heartless way to refer to firing 10k people.
- justinclift 4y ago"People" -> "Human resources" -> "Processes" Hmmm, wonder what the next step of "threads" will look like? ;)
- oblio 4y agoHeck, let's go all the way with the metaphors. Execute, reap.
- postsantum 4y agoNo, that's the final form. The beginning of the Terminator movie takes place in 2029, when "terminate a process" has become an euphemism for killing humans
- selimthegrim 4y agoThey already made a movie with that title.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoNo he's really referring to projects being shut down as "garbage collection", and I agree it is super heartless. It's interesting that Sheryl Sandberg left in the fall and now official comms from Mark like this are much less human--you can really see the absence of someone like Sheryl who could say to Mark, "hey this sounds terrible to real people, don't do this" and not get fired for it.
- oblio 4y agohttps://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims-wont-help-facebooks-privacy-problems-2010-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...
- Jensson 4y agoSo you would be happier if he said "I'm very sad and I take full responsibility"? People who judge based on word usage is why they write that fake crap.
- frob 4y agoHe just didn't even need to say it. It added nothing to the statement at all besides make him sound like a heartless android who sees people and hardware as the exact same thing.
- czbond 4y agoI read it as just internal company processes holding the company down or back. Large companies collect these as more and more controls are put in place to guide correct behaviors.